Schist is a medium-grained strongly-foliated crystalline metamorphic rock, formed by dynamic metamorphism, that can be readily split into thin flakes or slabs due to the well-developed …

Schist (/ ˈʃɪst / SHIST) is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity (named for the rock). This means that the rock is composed of mineral grains easily seen with …

Click the microscope button to view a thin section for this sample. This collection consists of the rocks and thin sections used in the Open University modules. The first set of samples are from …

Garnet mica schist in thin section: This is a microscopic view of a garnet grain that has grown in schist. The large black grain is the garnet, the red elongate grains are mica flakes. The black, …

He curated a collection of 42,000 rock specimens, as well as numerous thin sections, from the 1880s up to his death in 1939: these specimens form the core of what is now known as the …

This collection of virtual thin sections is the result of a collaboration between earth scientists at Leeds University and The Open University. The collection consists of 20 slides from the Leeds …

Microscopic examination of a rock in thin section enables its constituent minerals and its textural properties to be identified. These are important and essential steps in establishing a rock's …

The research results showed that Rumbia Mountains is dominated by metamorphic rocks (Mica Schist, Chlorite Schist, and Glaucophane Schist). The result of thin section analysis it is known...

... quartz-graphitic schist and other graphite-bearing units show a number of key microscopic features, identified from thin section observations (Fig. 7). Observations include various grades...

2011年8月10日 · In this study, the quartz mica schist is a coarse-grained rock with a well-defined schistose texture. The microscopic view of a thin section of the rock observed under cross …